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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day January 2017

On the fifteenth of every month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. Garden bloggers from around the world are invited to post images of blooms in their gardens. Many thanks to Carol for hosting the floral party; it's a great way to peek at gardens around the planet.

Due to our recent freezing weather, there's not a lot blooming in my garden at the moment. Inside the greenhouse, some of the schlumbergeras are still blooming. (You may notice that no moss has covered the ugly pot yet but I got the moss and it's sitting in a bag waiting.

Abutilons outside are a bit frozen and probably won't resume blooming until later in the year, assuming that the freeze didn't do them in. However inside is a different story.

The crazy pelargonum (geranium) is looking cheerful.

Believe it or not, even with night temperatures in the teens, there are still blooms outside.

Camellia japonica

Lonicera fragrantissima

Viburnum × bodnantense ‘Dawn’

Helleborus argutifolius which is now a mostly prostrate 7 foot circle of weirdness. One of these years, I swear that I'll support it somehow.

Garrya

There may be a primrose or two blooming but during the freeze they were laying on the ground and looking quite shriveled. Most likely the winter jasmine has a bloom or two as it has for a couple of months now. Only 64 days until the vernal equinox!

17 comments:

Not sure that I would call my hellebores (I have two) "seven foot circles of weirdness" but, you may have a point. Happy to see your blooms, and wishing you a happy GBBD. Spring never starts here on the equinox, alas.

Hehe. "Circles of weirdness." You have some lovely blooms, despite the cold. I'm waiting for the snow to melt before I try to find anything for bloom day outside, but I'm also mostly enjoying blooms in the house and greenhouse.

You have so many interesting blooms in your greenhouse which you can enjoy all winter, and we can enjoy them right along with you! It is cold here as well, with snow covering the garden, but the equinox is on its way!

Nice to see the Abutilons blooming in your greenhouse! I bought one at the Cistus tough love sale ($2!) last fall, it's currently in the basement. I have a feeling, come spring, I'm going to wish I'd bought many more.

Those Camellias are a lot tougher than their fragile appearance suggests! The Garrya is, as always, lovely and seeing it will shortly send me to my garden to see if my own struggling specimen is still alive. I hope things warm up your way soon!

Your greenhouse flowers are beautiful, so many different ones! The shrubs flowering in the garden are amazing aren't they, they carry on in spite of the weather.More little flowers are opening each day, making us think that spring can't be that far away!

How nice to have a greenhouse to be able to enjoy all these blooms! I've been seeing quite a few photos of the snow in Oregon on Facebook, so I'm amazed you have anything blooming at all outside. Wish I could grow camellias here!

Viburnums blooming outside in the weather you've had--wow! Nothing is blooming outside here, but I do have a few houseplants with flowers. Your greenhouse must be so awesome. I'd love to see it in person!

About Me

Why Outlaw Gardener? I like to break the rules of good taste, plant placement, and plant hardiness. Also, I have received periodic "love notes" from the city code enforcement officer telling me that my parking strip plants encroach on the city's right-of-way. When expressing my distress over the latest such notice, I exclaimed to my pal Loree (Danger Garden) "I'm an outlaw gardener!" To which she replied,"That would be a good name for a blog."
My first gardens were in Southeast Alaska (zone 3.)I do miss the beauty and community of small-town Alaska but I don't take for granted for a moment how wonderful it is to garden in zone 8.